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Title
View of Ocean Avenue from American Avenue in Long Beach, ca.1905
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1905
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a view of Ocean Avenue from American Avenue in Long Beach, ca.1905. A wide dirt road runs across the image in the center, and two sets of streetcar tracks can be seen in the middle of the road. The street is lined with tall buildings in the background, including The Cynthia -- a large structure with elaborate decorations on its roof and awnings over its windows at right. An early automobile can be seen at right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5924
USC-1-1-1-6032 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-32812
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5924
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-32812.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Long Beach--Streets
Streets
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1905
Place
California
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Ocean Avenue
USA
Source
1-32-154 [Microfiche number]
32812 [Accession number]
CHS-32812 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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